The Gophers, who began the season 13-3, will have to scrap to finish the season above .500 with games against Iowa (who beat the Gophers 94-80 earlier this season) and at #9 Purdue (who decimated Minnesota 81-47 in January).

Minnesota officials will soon try to convince a jury that manufacturer 3M Co. should pay the state $5 billion to help clean up environmental damage it alleges was caused by pollutants the company dumped for decades.

A northern Minnesota festival to celebrate an ugly bottom-feeding fish enters its 39th year Thursday. The International Eelpout Festival in Walker is held on Leech Lake and was started as a way to draw tourists to town in the wintertime.